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Miscellaneous
100
What approach puts the main focus on language acquisition through the explicit study of grammar, memorization, and L1 instruction?
Grammar Based Approach (or GTM)
100
Essays, oral presentations, portfolios, and research projects are what types if tests?
Integrative tests (or Direct tests)
100
The “Find Someone Who....” activity we did earlier in the semester was effective in creating a positive learning environment because it helped the students get to know one another and find and share things that they had in common. What is this an example of?
Affective activities (or icebreaker)
100
What does SDAIE stand for?
Specifically Designed Academic Instruction in English
100
Students respond to commands that require physical movement in what approach?
TPR Approach
200
When acquiring a language, what is the human standard sequence of learning of the first language (L1)?
Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing (LSRW)
200
These tests pay no attention to the norms or scores of a given population. Certain criteria are set; a student either meets the criteria or does not. The WPST is this kind if test.
Criterion-referenced tests
200
This approach suggests that students can learn to write by responding to questions from the instructor or students and having the instructor write down their responses. The students’ reading material is thus created by their own verbalization of language. (Remember Sara in our class?) What approach is this?
The Language Experience Approach
200
What learning strategy has students work in pairs or in groups of three to five persons?
Cooperative Learning
200
The program at Osborn School in Turlock teaches the entire curriculum in both Spanish and in English. This represents an example of content-based instruction at its best. A common term for this kind of school program is __________ ____________
Dual Immersion
300
Through the _____ ______ ______ , language learning is base on habit-formation; making mistakes is bad and should be avoided, as they make for bad habits. Language skills are learned by “over-learning,” practice through repetition, and reinforcement.
Audio-Lingual Approach (or Method)
300
One of my professors assigned a reading to be discussed in the next class session. I read the required text and understood some of the main concepts. It was not until we broke into groups and discussed the reading that I fully understand the concepts. Whose theory of learning helps to explain this?
Glasser’s Definition of Learning
300
This is an activity in which the students are asked to do a dramatic reading from a script.
Readers Theater (or Literature- Based Approach)
300
This hypothesis states that the text will be easier to reproduce, understand, and recall, to the extent that it is motivated and structured episodically. In other words, this man says: Use a story!
Oller’s Episode Hypothesis
300
Linguist Stephen Krashen popularized the term ______ _____ that describes, metaphorically, a set of negative, debilitative feelings or attitudes that may interfere with learning, especially in a classroom setting.
Affective Filter (Domain)
400
What term, popularized by Freire, suggests that education can provide cultural minorities or persons in a state of oppression with implements that will empower them to be more aware of the representation of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other cultural differences in order to gain critical thinking and produce social change?
Critical Pedagogy
400
This kind of testing is not a good indicator of language proficiency. A student may know all of the “rules” to the target language but may not be able to read or hold a conversation with a fluent speaker. An example would be a fill-in-the-blank test.
Indirect testing (or a discreet-point test)
400
Match the following:
1.) Techniques
2.) Methods
3.) Approaches
A.) the basic organization and delivering of a course.
B.) the philosophy regarding language learning and teaching.
C.) the utilization of various classroom activities in language learning.
1> c
2> a
3> b
400
______ _______ ______ focuses on the progressive “mastery” of skills that have been arbitrarily determined by textbook authors. The syllabus is organized synthetically around learning outcomes that have been divided into sets of skills and sub-skills. This type of approach is usually highly teacher-centered.
Competency Based Instruction (or Proficiency-Based Instruction)
400
A teacher wants to avoid hurting a student’s feelings, so instead of saying “No, that is wrong,” she simply restates the sentence correctly. This technique is called ____________ correction.
Indirect
500
A child is repeatedly shown pictures of an apple, banana, and peach then shown the associated word and object that goes along with them. After much trial and error the child associates the word with the corresponding item or picture, and is rewarded for making the connections. This is an example of what?
Connectionism
500
Match the following learning strategies with the examples:
1. Metacognitive
2. Cognitive
3. Social
A. highlight the key ideas from a lecture or use flashcards
B. form a study group
C. the decision to enroll in an immersion language program in Mexico (or to marry a Mexican)
1> b
2> a
3> c
500
Match the following techniques to the stage of acquisition:
A. Teaching for stage one: The Comprehension Stage
B. Teaching for stage two: The Early Speech Stage
C. Teaching for stage four: Intermediate Fluency
1.) the students do a write-around in groups, then write their own stories
2.) the students respond with one or two word phrases when prompted
3.) the students can respond by pointing or touching objects
A>3
B>2
C>1
500
The opposite approach from the above, _______ _________ _________, is one in which language per se is not taught explicitly but the curriculum is based on topics and subject matter that are carefully sequenced to facilitate language acquisition in context.
Content-Based Instruction
500
Students are paired. Person A has a picture. Person B has the same picture, but with ten differences. The students are asked to make a list of the ten differences but without seeing each other’s picture. This must be done orally through conversation, questions, and answers. They have ten minutes to find the answers. This type of activity can be called __________ _________ __________
Task-based Instruction (or information gap)
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